India will be tuberculosis free by 2025: PM Modi

PM Modi speaking on the sidelines of an event called End-TB Summit said, "A target has been set to eradicate Tuberculosis globally by 2030".

"It is nearly a Herculean task to eliminate TB by 2025 going by the current scenario".

The National Strategic Plan to eradicate TB by 2025 is operational and the government was constantly increasing the budget for the schemes to counter the disease, he said. The PM's announcement today makes the advanced target for TB elimination official.

"WHO will stand by India, and by every country that decides TB has no place in its future", he said.

He further said that front-line TB physicians and workers can make a major contribution in this direction.

"The government also needs to quickly roll out daily fixed-dose regimen under directly observed short course treatment throughout the country and introduce new diagnostic technology and newer anti-TB drugs". In contrast, India's current healthcare spending is barely 1.4% of the GDP. In addition, the ambitious expansion of resources planned under the NSP, 2012-2017, will have tripled the expenditure of the prior plan but has not been matched by allocations.

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Referring to the results of recent Assembly elections in the three States of North Eastern region, Singh said, the revolutionary transformation in Northeast is a testimony to the Modi Government's outreach to unite the youth from different parts of country with diverse backgrounds through a common cord of common aspiration.

He also invoked cooperative federalism as a way to counter the disease.

"This will be the world's largest government-funded health care programme".

In 2016, the number of tuberculosis related deaths in India was more than 400,000, about one-third of the total number of global toll.Modi said immunisation in India had been going on for 30-35 years but at the prevailing rate of one per cent in 2014, another 40 years would have been required.

If the world is to triumph in the war against tuberculosis, it must first win the battle in India, which has the maximum number of people living with, and dying from, the disease, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday.

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